Contemporary critical-theory praxis renewal is itself an immediacy phenomenon.

Evidence

In his 700-page 2020 masterwork Critique and Praxis, the Columbia law professor, Foucauldian theory expert, NPR talking head, and death-penalty lawyer Bernard Harcourt pronounces that critique has become too divorced from praxis. The praxis renewal to which he enjoins his fellow theorists is surprisingly not, however, collective action, but-on the same wavelength as the immediatizing impulses of autofiction and stream aesthetics, in the same underpinning of circulatory disintermediation and imaginary inflation-anti-representational emanation: We critical theorists should no longer be speaking for others. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 242

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the book’s central thesis about circulation time and immediacy — adds a striking new data point: even left critical theory has been immediatized.
• SEED: The irony of Bernard Harcourt — death-penalty lawyer and theory expert — endorsing immediacy could anchor a piece on how immediacy colonized even its would-be critics.